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D; H. & J. H. PAYNE.

Clothes-Line Pulley;

Patented Jan. 27, I880.

INVENTOR 73%??? BY NEYS WITNESSES N.PETERS, FHOIO-LITHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D G

' UNITED STATES PATENT EETQE.

DAVID H. PAYNE AND JEROME H. PAYNE, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

CLOTH ES-LINE PU LLEY.

SPECIFICATION formingparttof Letters Patent No. 223,947, dated January 27, 1880.

Application filed November 1, 1879.

- horizontally-revolving pulley for suspending clothes-lines, and one around which the line -with clothes hanging upon it can be easily pulled without injury to the clothes.

The invention consists of a horizontal disk from the edges of which several curved arms project outward and downward and several corresponding straight arms project outward and upward, with a ring or rim fixed over and upon the points of each set of arms.

In the drawings, A represents the disk; B B, the lower curved arms; 0 G, the upwardprojecting arms, and I) D the rings or rims set upon the points or tips of the arms B O. The disk A has a hole, a, bored vertically through its center, and it is suspended in position by a bent rod, E, (shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1,) which passes through the hole a, being held thereon .by the nut b.

By the upward, downward, and outward projection of the arms B G, a groove, F, is formed about the center of the pulley, and in this groove F the line rests.

The curves of the lower arms, B B, tend to keep the line from slipping down from the pulley; but should the line, because of its slackness or becauseof the weight of clothes upon it, tend to slip downward, it (the line) will be checked and held up by the lower ring or rim, D, that projects beyond the arms B B at their interspaces.

We are aware that clothes-line pulleys with projecting curved arms have been used; but they are objectionable, because the clothes so readily become torn upon the uncovered tips of the arms.

Thispulley may be made in two parts and united at the center, or be made in a single casting. In the present instance it is made in two parts or sections that areunited at their bases, as shown, by screws, rivets, or other convenient device.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 7 The combination of the disk A, having central hole, a, the downwardly-curved arms B, and the upwardly-projecting arms 0, each se ries of arms having a ring, D, on their tips, as described, to form a suspension clothesline pulley.

DAVID HENRY PAYNE. JEROME HAMILTON PAYNE.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. SHAPPO, JAMEs W. PALMER. 

